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Dumb question. I assume you shipped the CSO back in the box the new one came in?

Is that in Woodbridge? If it is, is it far off the 407? We are going to Burlington next weekend.

I dunno @Shelby. Got enough butter on that bread?

Amazon got back to me and directed me to Cuisinart. @JoNorvelleWalker is that what you had to do? If yes, how hard/easy did they make it to return the thing?.

I knew I could count on you to cheer me up.🙂

It just happened once but I am under no illusions that it won't get worse. The same thing happened to my Breville Smart Oven but it was well past warranty and I had had it for a number of years so I didn't feel too bad when it quit. So, I am familiar with fans quitting. I bought it from Amazon so I will write to them to see what they have to say. It could be tricky sending it back in the box it came in - it has been converted into a house for our cat Zeus thus has a "door" cut out of the side.

It was purchased in June of last year.

@kayb Thank you!

@pastrygirl Nice haul!

Well, now, that sounds interesting. Can you tell us more about it?

I watched this but it is not what I am after, but thank you for posting this. I have seen Poruguese tarts but have never had one. Now that I know what goes into making them, I'll have to try one.

I just happen to have some unbaked, all butter croissants from Costco in the freezer. I think I'll give this a shot.

Egads!!!

I turned on my little oven this morning and it is working but for the first several seconds, it made this horrible grinding noise. Anyone else ever experience this?

I had an epic fail this week. I wanted corn risotto and I had a recipe for cod fish cakes that also had some corn in it that was to go with it.. I should have known better than to use out of season corn. The cod cakes would not hold together when made as per the recipe. I kept adding panko until they were somewhat glued together but then they wanted to fall apart in the frying pan. The corn risotto was fibrous. Not a pleasant meal.

@Kim Shook Thank you. How important is the orange? Could you taste it? The link, BTW, no longer works.

@Kim Shook Can you tell me what recipe you used? I was all set today to try to make these again using the same recipe as the one I used before but decided against it.

I don't know about anywhere else, but Canadian brands of peanut oil are flavorless. However, I buy a peanut oil at an Asian store which comes from Taiwan and it is very peanuty.

@Alex The comments make for some interesting reading. Thanks for posting this.

What a sad day. I feel for you.

Here in Canada, Robin Hood bread flour is 13% protein while their all purpose flour, both bleached and unbleached are 12%.

Another dish from Janet Zimmerman's The Ultimare Instant Pot Cookbook for Two. This is teriyaki chicken. Rather than toss the marinade I reduced it a bit and thickened it with a cornstarch slurry to thicken to sauce the chicken. If anyone else makes this, I'd recommend doing this. Edited to add: the uncooked rice was put in the bottom of the pot, the chicken was placed on top and was cooked like that.

Puff pastry maybe?

https://www.amazon.ca/Chinese-Street-Food-Classic-Harrowing-ebook/dp/B078BN5GCD?_bbid=12259385&tag=bookbubemailca-20 Here's another.

That is one heck of a lot of miles.